Clinton Warns Countries Against Cyberattacks

Declaring that an attack on one nation's computer networks "can be an attack on all," Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton issued a warning that the United States would defend itself from cyberattacks, though she left unclear the means of response. In a sweeping, pointed address that dealt with the Internet as a force for both liberation and repression, Mrs. Clinton said: "Those who disrupt the free flow of information in our society or any other pose a threat to our economy, our government and our civil society."